The PPAM 2013 conference, tenth in a series, will cover topics in parallel and distributed computing, including theory and applications, as well as applied mathematics. The focus will be on models, algorithms, and software tools which facilitate efficient and convenient utilization of modern parallel and distributed computing architectures, as well as on large-scale applications.

PPAM is a biennial conference started in 1994, with the proceedings published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences series. This year the jubilee PPAM conference will take place in Warsaw, the capital and largest city of Poland, a major international tourist destination and an important economic hub in Central Europe, known as the "phoenix city" because it has survived many wars throughout its history.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited) to:
• Parallel/distributed architectures, enabling technologies
• Cloud computing
• Multi-core and many-core parallel computing
• GPU computing
• Heterogeneous/hybrid computing and accelerators
• Cluster computing
• Parallel/distributed algorithms: numerical and non-numerical
• Scheduling, mapping, load balancing
• Performance analysis and prediction
• Performance issues on various types of parallel systems
• Autotuning: methods, tools, and applications
• Power and energy aspects of computation
• Parallel/distributed programming
• Tools and environments for parallel/distributed computing
• Security and dependability in parallel/distributed environments
• HPC numerical linear algebra
• HPC methods of solving differential equations
• Evolutionary computing, meta-heuristics and neural networks
• HPC interval analysis
• Applied Computing in mechanics, material processing, biology and
medicine, physics, chemistry, business, environmental modeling, etc.
• Applications of parallel/distributed computing
• Methods and tools for parallel solution of large-scale problems
• Large-scale social network analysis

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (tentative list)

Fran Berman Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Ewa Deelman University of Southern California, USA
Jack Dongarra University of Tennessee and ORNL, USA
Geoffrey Ch. Fox Indiana University, USA
Laura Grigori INRIA, France
Fred Gustavson IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Georg Hager University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Alexey Lastovetsky University College Dublin, Ireland
Miron Livny University of Wisconsin, USA
Piotr Luszczek University of Tennessee, USA
Rizos Sakellariou University of Manchester, UK
Leonel Sousa Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Boleslaw K. Szymanski Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Denis Trystram Grenoble Institute of Technology, France
Jeffrey Vetter ORNL and Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Richard W. Vuduc Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Jerzy Wasniewski Technical University of Denmark
Robert Wisniewski Intel, USA
Katherine Yelick University of California, Berkeley, USA
Albert Y. Zomaya University of Sydney, Australia

WORKSHOPS, MINISYMPOSIA, SPECIAL SESSIONS (preliminary list)

• Minisymposium on GPU Computing
• Special Session on Multicore Systems
• Workshop on Models, Algorithms and Methodologies for Hierarchical
Parallelism in New HPC Systems
• Workshop on Numerical Algorithms on Hybrid Architectures
• Minisymposium on Communication Avoiding Algorithms for
Linear Algebra
• Workshop on Applied High Performance Numerical Algorithms in PDEs
• Workshop on Scheduling for Parallel Computing
• Workshop on Language-Based Parallel Programming Models
• Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Parallel Applications
on Large-Scale Systems
• WS on Power and Energy Aspects of Computation
• Workshop on Parallel Computational Biology
• Minisymposium on Applications of Parallel Computation in Industry
and Engineering
• Minisymposium on HPC Applications in Physical Sciences
• Minisymposium on High Performance Computing Interval Methods
• Workshop on Complex Collective Systems
• Workshop on Service Oriented Architecture in Distributed Systems

TUTORIALS (preliminary list)
1. "Scientific Computing with GPUs" by Dominik Goeddeke team
2. "Design and implementation of parallel algorithms for highly heterogeneous HPC
platforms" by Alexey Lastovetsky
3. "Node-level performance engineering" by Georg Hager
The first day of PPAM 2013 is reserved for tutorials.

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
Original papers are invited for the conference. Authors should submit full papers (draft version, PDF file, together with abstract) using the online submission system before April 21, 2013. Regular papers are not to exceed 10 pages (LNCS style). Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the conference topics. Abstracts of accepted papers will be available during the conference in form of a brochure. Only papers presented at PPAM 2013 will be included into the proceedings, which will be published after the conference by Springer in the LNCS series. Full camera-ready versions of accepted papers will be required by November 15, 2013.

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES
The authors of the best papers selected by the Program Committee will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to special issues of the following journals: Scientific Programming (IOS Press), and Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (John Wiley & Sons Ltd.).

CONFERENCE OFFICE

PPAM 2013
Institute of Computer & Information Science
Czestochowa University of Technology
Dabrowskiego 73, 42-201 Czestochowa, Poland
Phone: +48 668 476 840
Fax: +48 34 3250 589
e-mail: roman@icis.pcz.pl
http://ppam.pl

Roman Wyrzykowski Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland
CHAIR OF PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Ewa Deelman University of Southern California, USA
VICE-CHAIR OF PROGRAM COMMITTEE